A New Day - 3 Fat Chicks on a Diet Weight Loss Community

aholden · 03-13-2006, 10:58 AM

I am new here. I have been lurking all morning and I have decided to join. I am a thirty something - no kids- overweight gal who is becomming somewhat depressed. I have been on more diets than you can name, and I am usually successful for a short period of time until I sabotage myself. I am now ready to do it, but it is not coming to me as easily as it has in the past. I go to the gym almost every day, but I still eat enough to maintain my 230 weight. I would love to talk to others about getting motivated. I read a thread this morning about eating more veggies and I already feel better! I am looking forward to being a part of this neat site! Thanks ~ aholden

srmb60 · 03-13-2006, 11:06 AM

Welcome and congratulations on going to the gym. Now what'll we do about your food?? What would you like to do about your food?

ellis · 03-13-2006, 11:09 AM

Welcome!

We're so glad you're posting.

Like Susan said, what do you want to do about the eating? There are so many options. Eating more veggies is a great start!!

Angel33 · 03-13-2006, 11:26 AM

aholden
Great news on going to the gym. When I started off I had just the opposite problem. I had a hard time with the exercising part. It will come to you and you will find on this site alone that there are a number of different "diets" or as I would rather refer to it as Eating styles that you will find.
I would continue to look around and ask questions. There are a lot of people here that are more than willing to help.

Good Luck to you!

aholden · 03-13-2006, 12:12 PM

Food is a problem. I don't have any trouble going to the gym. I have this strange problem with food, however. My husband is very small, and is in control of his weight. He eats small amounts and stops when he is full. I want to eat everything that is available to me. I have pinpointed the problem but I don't know how to stop it. My parents and brother were very large, and we were in competition for food. If there were any lefteovers, they wouldn't be there long. I couldn't "save" anything for later. I would eat more food than I needed because I knew that if I enjoyed it so much, it would be short lived. Now, I have the issue that I cannot stop eating comfort foods, candy, etc. Even though I know that my husband won't "steal" my food, it seems that I cannot stop. I don't know how to solve this problem. Mind over matter, sure. But it just seems very hard for me. I know what I'm doing when I am doing it, but I excuse it. Ugh.

Thank you for your replies. It really is nice talking about this.